Adaptive Evolution of cry Genes in Bacillus thuringiensis: Implications for Their Specificity Determination

Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 102-110

  Wu, Jin Yu ^a   Zhao, Fang Qing ^b   Bai, Jie ^a   Deng, Gang ^a   Qin, Song ^b   Bao, Qi Yu ^a  

^a WENZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

adaptive evolution; Bacillus thuringiensis; Cry protein; maximum likelihood method

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS TOXIN; GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN CRY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; CRY GENE; GENE; GROWTH CURVE; INSECT; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN TARGETING; RECEPTOR BINDING;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BAYES THEOREM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ENDOTOXINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SELECTION (GENETICS); SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; HEXAPODA;

EID: 34548760723     PISSN: 16720229     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1672-0229(07)60020-5     Document Type: Article

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